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Annihilators are weak and weak star closed
Statement
For subsets , of a real or complex normed dual pair, is a weak-star closed linear subspace and is a weakly closed linear subspace, in ZF. For linear subspaces, . Under HB (The real dominated-extension principle as an additional hypothesis over ZF), also for linear .
Facts & Assumptions
Annihilators mean vanishing on every member of the specified subset (Annihilator notation and the preannihilator).
Bounded primal functionals and dual evaluations are respectively weakly and weak-star continuous (Basic weak neighborhoods, Basic weak star neighborhoods).
The weak-star double-annihilator identity for linear is the first identity in Double annihilators give norm and weak-star closures. Only this identity is used here.
Under HB, each exterior point of a nonempty closed convex set is strictly separated by a bounded scalar-linear functional's real part (Relative geometric Hahn–Banach with the exact open, closed, and compact hypotheses).
Proof
Given: the stated subsets; assume linearity of for the identities and HB only for the primal identity.
By F1, is the intersection over of the kernels of , and is the intersection over of . Each kernel is a linear subspace and closed in the corresponding topology by F2 and closedness of . Intersections preserve both properties; empty intersections give the whole ambient spaces.
For linear , F3 yields with no primal norming used. For linear , every functional vanishing on also vanishes on its norm closure, by norm continuity. Thus . Step 1.1 also implies .
Assume HB and fix . The set is a nonempty closed linear subspace: addition and scalar multiplication preserve closure by their norm estimates. By F4 there is whose real part is bounded above on and strictly larger at . Since is a real linear subspace, scaling forces on . In the complex case forces too. Hence and , excluding from . The open set also excludes from . Norm closure is contained in weak closure because weak-open sets are norm open; all three sets therefore coincide.
Depends on
- Annihilator notation and the preannihilator
- Basic weak neighborhoods
- Basic weak star neighborhoods
- Double annihilators give norm and weak-star closures
- Relative geometric Hahn–Banach with the exact open, closed, and compact hypotheses
- The real dominated-extension principle as an additional hypothesis over ZF
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Sources
- Bühler–Salamon, Functional Analysis (2017); exact harvest in batch coverage (standard reference, not scraped)
- Teschl, Topics in Real and Functional Analysis (2017); exact harvest in batch coverage (standard reference, not scraped)